李晓琴

What are the three essential elements for us human beings to survive on the earth? water air food

Here are some proverbs about food: Bread is the staff of life. 民意食为天。 You are what you eat. 吃什么食物变什么样。 Eat to live, but do not live to eat. 为生活而饮食，莫过于为饮食而生活。

Do you know the food you eat helps you grow in different way? Foods to give you energy Foods to grow bones and muscle (eg body- building food) Foods that give fiber for digestion and health (eg protective food) Fast energy food Slow energy food Rice Sugar Noodles potatoes bread Butter Cream Oils nuts Meat Eggs Cheese Milk tofu All vegetables (eg beans, mushrooms,…) All fruit(eg apples,peaches, …)

Do you eat a healthy diet? Which one would you prefer? Western food or Chinese food?

What do you usually have for breakfast / lunch /supper?

Which food is rich in fat / fibre / sugar / vitamin / protein?

ricecorn dumplings carrot Which food is rich in fat / fibre /sugar / vitamin / protein?

bacon meat Which food is rich in fat / fibre /calcium( 钙 ) / sugar /vitamin / protein? fish milk eggs

Which food is rich in fat / fibre / sugar /vitamin / protein? salad French fries chocolate Ice cream hamburgers

milk, cheese, yogurt; meat, poultry, fish, beans fats, oils, sweets Fruit; vegetable bread, cereal, rice, pasta fat protein 蛋白质 Fibres, sugar Provide our body with: vitamins Food Pyramid

What will happen if you do not eat a balanced diet?

How to keep healthy?  Junk food —has a lot of calories but few nutrients, vitamins and minerals.  Healthy food —give us the calories we need but not contain too much fat and sugar.

What is healthy diet? Healthy diet: a diet that is balanced and neither too rich in fat, sugar and salt nor too poor and lacking in essential nutrients.

healthy eating food choices balanced diet What food contains healthy/junk food healthy eating

Decide which food is junk food or healthy food and give reasons. I think …is junk food because… I think … is healthy food because… (be rich in; be low in) Speaking

1. Do you think we should eat each kind of food? 2. What will happen if we don’t eat a balanced diet?

Which food contains more…? Examples of foodsAnswer sugar chocolate or grape cakes or bananas fat cream or rice chocolate or chicken fibre peas or nuts pork or cabbage protein potato crisps or ham eggs or cream chocolate cakes cream chocolate nuts cabbage ham eggs

Which one is healthier, the Chinese food or Western food? Chinese food: the healthiest diet, a lot of fruit and green vegetables, rich in fiber, low in sugar Western food: too much fat (meat, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate…),too much sugar (cakes, soft drinks, sweets…)

Pre-reading 1. What do you think should go into a good meal? A good meal should contain some food from each of the three categories above. 2. Imagine you and your partner are going to invite some friends for dinner. What special food of your place would you offer them? Plan a menu.

3. Look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures. Predict what the passage is about.

Scanning Read the text quickly to find out which sentence is the main idea of the text. 1. The two restaurants supplied the healthy food. 2. The reason why Yong Hui’s restaurant was so popular with customers. 3. Wang Pengwei found out why he had lost his customer and decided to win them back.

What’s the main idea of each part? Para.1: Para.2: Para.3: Para.4: Wang Peng’s menu and the popularity of his restaurant. Finding Yong Hui’s restaurant. Yong Hui’s restaurant and menu. Wang Peng’s research.

I. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions one paragraph by one paragraph. Close reading

Paragraph I: 1. Who is Wang Pengwei? 2. What happened on that strange morning? 3. How do you like the food in his restaurant? He is a restaurant keeper. There was no customer in his restaurant that morning, which was unnatural. It is delicious but it can make us get fat quickly.

Paragraph II: 1. What did Wang see when he followed Li Chang? 2. What kind of food was served in this restaurant? He saw that a new restaurant was opened and there was a sign in its window. Only slimming food was served there.

Paragraph III: 1. Who is Yong Hui? 2. What amazed Wang in Yong Hui’s restaurant? She is the owner of the new restaurant. The menu and the price in Yong’s restaurant amazed him very much.

3. What did Wang decide to do after he left there? He decided to go to library to find out whether his restaurant’s food made people fat.

Paragraph IV: 1. What did Wang find out after reading? 2. What did he do then? He found out that Yong Hui’s restaurant was not giving its customers energy-giving food. He wrote a sign to win his customer back!

3. What happened afterwards? The competition between the two restaurants was on.

1. Usually Wang Peng’s restaurant was full of people. 2. Yong Hui could make people thin in two weeks by giving them a good diet. It would take longer than that. T F II. Tick the correct answers.

3. Wang Peng’s regular customers often became fat. T 4. Yong Hui’s menu gave customers more emery-giving food. No. it gave them protective food but no energy-giving or body-building food. F

5. Wang Peng’s menu gave customers more protective food. 6. Wang Peng decided to compete with Yong Hui by copying her menu. He decided to advertise the benefits of his menu. F F

Wang Peng’s restaurant Yong Hui’s restaurant Food drink mutton kebabs; roast pork; stir- fried vegetables; fried rice raw vegetables; fruit cola; ice creamwater III. Compare the two restaurants:

price strength of the diet weakness of the diet expensivecheap giving its customers energy- giving food make its customers thin cause the customers to be fat the customers become tired quickly

Retelling the story Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very __________ because his customers did not ______ to his restaurant as they ______ did. He felt very strange. He ________ his friend to a newly opened restaurant _______ offered to make people _______ in _____ weeks. usually followed which frustrated come thin two

The new restaurant was _____ of customers. Worried, he did some research and tried to ______ his customers ______. full win back

Post reading Discuss these questions in pairs. 1. What do you think Wang Peng will provide to win his customers back? 2. How do you think the story will end?